Referred to: The Economic Development, Tourism, Housing, Planning and Transit

Committee (Chairman Maloney and Legislators Berky, Delaune, Lapp, Litts, Maio

and Rodriguez)

Chairman of the Economic Development, Tourism, Housing, Planning, and Transit

Committee, James F. Maloney, and Deputy Chairman Hector Rodriguez offer the

following:

WHEREAS, pursuant to Title 1 of Article 18-A of the General Municipal Law

of the State of New York, as amended (the “Enabling Act”) and Chapter 787 of the

1976 Laws of New York, as amended, constituting Section 923 of said General

Municipal Law (said Chapter and the Enabling Act being hereinafter collectively

referred to as the “Act”), the County Legislature has heretofore appointed the

Chairman and members of Ulster County Industrial Development Agency (the

“Agency”) and has duly caused to be filed in the office of the Secretary of State of

the State of New York the certificates required by Section 856 of the Act; and

WHEREAS, to accomplish its stated purposes, the Agency is authorized and

empowered under the Act to acquire, construct, reconstruct and install one or more

“projects” (as defined in the Act) or to cause said projects to be acquired,

constructed, reconstructed and installed, and to convey said projects or to lease said

projects with the obligation to purchase; and

WHEREAS, Bardavon 1869 Opera House, Inc., a New York not-for-profit

corporation (the “Applicant”), submitted an application (the “Application”) to the

Agency, a copy of which Application is on file at the office of the Agency, which

Application requested that the Agency consider undertaking a project (the “Project”)

for the benefit of UPAC LLC, a New York limited liability company (the

“Company”), said Project consisting of the following: (A) (1) the acquisition of an

interest in a parcel of land containing approximately 12,750 square feet located at

601 Broadway (Tax Map # 56.109-3-19) in the City of Kingston, Ulster County, New

York (the “Land”), together with the existing theater/entertainment facility located

thereon containing in the aggregate approximately 34,100 square feet of space

(collectively, the “Facility”), (2) the reconstruction and renovation of the Facility and

(3) the acquisition and installation therein and thereon of certain machinery and

equipment (the “Equipment”) (the Land, the Facility and the Equipment being

collectively referred to as the “Project Facility”), all of the foregoing to be owned by

the Company, managed by the Applicant and operated as a theater/entertainment

facility and any directly or indirectly related activities; (B) the granting of certain 

“financial assistance” (within the meaning of Section 854(14) of the Act) with

respect to the foregoing, including potential exemptions from certain sales and use

taxes, real property taxes, real estate transfer taxes and mortgage recording taxes

(collectively, the “Financial Assistance”); and (C) the lease (with an obligation to

purchase) or sale of the Project Facility to the Company or such other person as may

be designated by the Company and agreed upon by the Agency; and

WHEREAS, the Company is undertaking the Project on behalf of the

Applicant in order to provide for the financing of the Project with the proceeds of a

tax credit financing (the “Tax Credit Financing”) and, in connection with the Tax

Credit Financing, the Applicant will convey the Project Facility to the Company; and

WHEREAS, the Company has advised the Agency that upon the conveyance

of the Project Facility to the Company to provide for the Tax Credit Financing, the

Project Facility, which is currently exempt from real property taxes due to the

ownership by the Applicant, will become subject to real property taxation; and

WHEREAS, in order to address the issue of the Project Facility being subject

to real property taxation, the Company has requested that (1) the Agency execute and

deliver a certain payment in lieu of tax agreement (the “PILOT Agreement”) by and

between the Agency and the Company, and (2) the proposed payment terms in the

PILOT Agreement provide that the Company be required not to pay any payments in

lieu of taxes with respect to the Project Facility; and

WHEREAS, the payment terms to be contained in the PILOT Agreement are

summarized as follows:

During the period that the Project Facility is owned by the Company and

managed by the Applicant, the amount of payments in lieu of taxes payable by the

Company with respect to the Project Facility shall be equal to $-0-; subject to the

following: (a) the period of the PILOT Agreement shall not exceed eight (8) years,

and (b) in event that the Company or the Applicant sublease all or a portion of the

Project Facility to a for-profit corporation, payments in lieu of taxes in an amount

equal to “normal taxes” shall be due for the portion of the Project Facility subject to

such sublease; and 

WHEREAS, these payment terms constitute a deviation from the Agency’s

Uniform Tax Exemption Policy (the “Policy”); and

WHEREAS, under the Agency’s Policy, prior to entering into a payment in

lieu of tax agreement that deviates from the Policy’s standard payment terms, the

Agency shall (1) notify each affected tax jurisdiction, and (2) attempt to obtain the

written consent of all the affected tax jurisdictions; and

WHEREAS, the Agency desires that Ulster County, through its County

Legislature, as one of the affected tax jurisdictions with respect to the Project

Facility, adopt a resolution indicating whether the County Legislature agrees to the

terms of the proposed PILOT Agreement; now, therefore be it

RESOLVED by the County Legislature, as follows:

Section 1. For the purpose of satisfying the requirements contained in the

Agency’s Policy, the County Legislature hereby (1) acknowledges notification of the

proposed deviation from the Agency’s Policy, and (2) approves the payment terms

described above, including the proposed deviation from the Agency’s Policy outlined

above.

Section 2. The Chairman of the County Legislature is hereby authorized,

on behalf of the County Legislature, to execute and deliver the PILOT Agreement for

the purpose of evidencing its approval to the proposed deviation from the Agency’s

Policy, said PILOT Agreement to contain the payment terms substantially in the form

presented at this meeting, with such changes, variations, omissions and insertions as

the Chairman of the County Legislature shall approve, the execution thereof by the

Chairman of the County Legislature to constitute conclusive evidence of such

approval.

Section 3. The officers, employees and agents of the County Legislature

are hereby authorized and directed for and in the name and on behalf of the County

Legislature to do all acts and things required or provided for by the applicable

provisions of this Resolution in order to ensure compliance with such provisions as

they relate to the execution and delivery of the PILOT Agreement, and to execute

and deliver all such additional certificates, instruments and documents, and to do all

such further acts and things as may be necessary or, in the opinion of the officer, 

employee or agent acting, desirable and proper to effect the purposes of the foregoing

resolution.

Section 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately,

and move its adoption.

ADOPTED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:

 AYES: 22 NOES: 0

 (Absent: Legislator Briggs)

Passed Committee: Economic Development, Tourism, Housing, Planning and Transit

on November 9, 2016

FINANCIAL IMPACT:

NONE

STATE OF NEW YORK

 ss:

COUNTY OF ULSTER

I, the undersigned Clerk of the Legislature of the County of Ulster, hereby certify that the foregoing resolution is

the original resolution adopted by the Ulster County Legislature on the 22nd Day of November in the year Two Thousand

and Sixteen, and said resolution shall remain on file in the office of said clerk.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of the County of Ulster this 23rd Day of

November in the year Two Thousand and Sixteen.

|s| Victoria A. Fabella

Victoria A. Fabella, Clerk

Ulster County Legislature

Submitted to the County Executive this Approved by the County Executive this

23rd Day of November, 2016. 30th Day of November, 2016.

|s| Victoria A. Fabella |s| Michael P. Hein

Victoria A. Fabella, Clerk Michael P. Hein, County Executive

Ulster County Legislature